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. 2019 May 8;286(1902):20190685. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0685

Table 3.

Average performance of the MCMC using different age handling methods. The performance is calculated as the CPU time (in seconds) per effective sample of the posterior distribution and of the total length of the tree.

time/ESS correct age median age interval ages random age symmetric ages
posterior 188.2 36.8 163.9 131.7 150.4
total height 12.7 15.8 22.1 26.0 26.2